The Dan Norton Show

23 November 2025, Livestream #66 0:00 Intro Michael Milken Reading update: Immigration, southern border wall & Trump/Biden 12:52 Why is capitalism so out of fashion? (Jonathan Hoenig) Altruism, conservative response, response to conservative (mind-sacrifice) Not understanding what "capitalism" is; mixed economy, 19th century U.S., tariffs Mises & Rand 33:41 Reading update: Bible: Book of Judges, R...

18 November 2025, Livestream #65 0:00 Intro 1:34 Forthcoming commentary video re: David Pakman 4:58 My new channel description 11:42 Marriage Blocking someone TikTok Live Turning on Super Chat Marriage (continued) 1:05:05 Call w/ Latent Prion Should politicians be ruthless, cunning, dishonest to protect rights? Dictatorship, vigilantism 2:50:27 Consequentialism 3:55:56 The Trump Organization, Trum...

13 November 2025, Livestream #64 0:00 My YouTube channel has been monetized!!! 19:58 Reading update: Richard III, Book of Joshua, Trump's first term, Unite the Right rally 29:44 Call w/J re: introspection and free will Suspiciousness of social science studies Benjamin Libet's experiments Improvisation 1:12:15 Call w/Holden 1:16:06 Passage in Hoppe's book re: axioms, analytic/synthetic, a priori/a...

7 November 2025, Livestream #63 0:00 Intro 9:15 Reading update: Trump's 2016 campaign for president Blocking a chatter who was uncivil Is/ought & existence/identity/causality (Greg Lewis) Preying mantis sexual behavior and altruism (technical difficulties for ~10 min. while I figure out why I can't hear the caller) 1:18:18 Call w/ Oh Noes Are non-human organisms egoistic/altruistic? Background on...

2 November 2025, Livestream #62 0:00 Intro 5:18 Holden Mitrione's call re: Atlas Shrugged etc. Holden's overall reaction statement The theme of Atlas Shrugged Mind and body, sex America and the founders The Fountainhead, Atlas Shrugged, and Anthem Faith and reason What to read/study next? Engaging with chat I'm over 3k hours of watchtime, the threshold for YouTube monetization! Is evidence for God...

In this video I comment on my second call (of three) to The David Pakman Show, a leftist political show with over three million subscribers on YouTube. My commentary video on my first call can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N4PP0WrVTMc 0:00 Intro 1:28 Beginning of call: Posting my calls etc. 3:59 Political philosophy discussion begins: "Utopian libertarianism" 6:24 David's list of...

28 October 2025, Livestream #61 0:00 Intro Irreplaceable Spark conference Justifying egoism; bridging the is-ought gap or facts and values Hypothetical vs. categorical imperatives (Aside: Immigration and Ohtani the baseball player) Religion/Kant 36:23 Yaron's recent interview by Dave Rubin 46:13 Reading update: up to Richard III 53:16 Wondering if a chatter (Steven McGowan) is the same person as s...

23 October 2025, Livestream #60 0:00 Intro Should an egoist save a drowning child? Emotionalism Helping strangers "The Ethics of Emergencies," by Ayn Rand (1963) "Famine, Affluence, and Morality," by Peter Singer (1972) Intrinsicism 1:16:43 Are beggars responsible for their own condition? Underlying causes of emergencies My experience giving money to beggars Working on 2nd commentary video on my c...

18 October 2025, Livestream #59 0:00 Intro No Kings protests My original stream title: "No Kings. And no dictatorship of the proletariat. My life is not for tyrants or mobs. It's for ME!!!" 14:12 Ayn Rand, Social Security & Medicare Israel/Palestine (I only mention the topic, I don't discuss it) Did Ayn Rand get out of Social Security & Medicare more than she put in? 32:56 Onkar Ghate's article, "...

14 October 2025, Livestream #58 0:00 Intro Altruism 19:20 Trump, Chicago/Portland "war zone," ICE/police & due process Facebook replies to my posts & my replies to them Enforcing bad laws What do I mean by altruism? Mother Teresa 1:54:50 My X post re: communism, nazism, and capitalism Copying and pasting the chat Monetizing my channel and other YouTube analytics My video, "Is the mind physical?" 2...

9 October 2025, Livestream #57 0:00 Intro 7:35 Troll update Should there be debtor's prison? 19:16 Reading update: Henry IV, Lollards, burning heretics Andrew Wilson vs. Michael Liebowitz debate Candace Owens, Charlie Kirk, and the Jews/Israel Free will, debt, and rationality Gross topics 2010 schism Incest, Oedipus, Hapsburgs Holden Mitrione update My YouTube analytics 1:36:00 Reading update: Alt...

4 October 2025, Livestream #56 0:05 Intro 2:00 The “enemy from within”: Is Trump making a move to be dictator? 40:44 Troll attack & response (about 2 hours) Catching up on chat with non-trolls 2:47:02 Benefiting yourself as the ultimate end (Cleric) 2:52:56 Climate change, Alex Epstein Benefiting yourself as the ultimate end (continued) (Cleric) Nuclear energy Ayn Rand vs. Ronald Reagan Polling ch...

30 September 2025, Livestream #55 0:00 Intro 7:19 Nick Fuentes, Groypers, racism, immigration, etc. Focusing on the positive; follow the news only insofar as doing so serves your values Yaron Brook's show vs. mine 1:37:38 My YouTube analytics Video description; AI version not available 1:50:17 My specialty in philosophy; The Selfishness Project Michael Liebowitz vs. Andrew Wilson debate; Michael's...

26 September 2025, Livestream #54 0:00 Intro Record number of views & watchtime on my last livestream Egoism/altruism & religion, Mother Teresa Does everyone always aim at their own interest? Ayn Rand and Social Security Suicide The spiritual source of material values vs. Marxism What is happiness? 1:02:53 Call w/ Cass from the UK Brief summary of Objectivism Cass' religious upbringing Trans issue...

22 September 2025 Livestream #53 0:00 Intro 2:28 Show title: "This world, not God; reason, not faith; egoism, not altruism; capitalism, not statism. Ayn Rand! 👍👍👍" Robert: "🍀 A provocative show title ... should make for an interesting episode!" Charlie Kirk's religious memorial Upcoming shows announcements 13:15 Destiny got demonetized, my own path to monetization What you can and can't say on...

In this video I comment on my first call (of three) to The David Pakman Show, a leftist political show with over three million subscribers on YouTube. I plan to comment on my second and third calls in separate videos. 0:00 Intro 0:51 Thumbnail and title for my first call on David Pakman's channel 1:33 Beginning of my first call: Is David up for a long-form debate? Would paying for a debate make a...

18 September 2025 Livestream #52 0:00 Intro 4:17 Forthcoming David Pakman video, Sam Seder videos 16:11 Jimmy Kimmel, ABC, FCC (Robert) 31:08 If you don't like taxes, why not move? (Aasaa) 33:48 Will Durant and The Story of Civilization; reason v. faith, the duel between Plato and Aristotle; my review article (Joseph Kellard) 52:50 The chat Leader board; time delay test; infinite looping of my str...

14 September 2025 Livestream #51 0:00 Intro 3:47 Western civilization; reason vs. faith; freedom & democracy (Simon) 11:00 Dr. Peikoff's DIM Hypothesis & integration (Simon) 18:05 Will Durant (Greg) 21:53 Super stickers (Stephen Harper) 28:22 Brief summary of Objectivism: reason, egoism, and capitalism (Jasmeet) 36:38 Call w/ Mark Moses on local government and free markets Mark's background with A...

10 September 2025 Livestream #50 0:03 Intro, miscellaneous 5:24 Charlie Kirk is shot; free speech 12:23 Free will & moral responsibility; compatibilism 17:46 The FCC & the Internet; misc. 24:55 Reaction video to my first call to The David Pakman Show 28:26 My calls to The Majority Report w/ Sam Seder 43:01 Call w/ Holden Mitrione Charlie Kirk (whom Holden debated) The Fountainhead Paul's comment o...

6 September 2025 Livestream #49 0:00 Intro Robert and Amy Nasir's channel: https://www.youtube.com/@RobertNasir 9:44 My YouTube metrics (screen share) 15:11 Ayn Rand's prophetic nature (Greg) 27:16 Ayn Rand & Aristotle, on productiveness, slavery (Greg) 31:57 The Middle Ages and its dates, transition to the modern world (Greg) 36:16 Is it self-interested to oppose immigration? (RW) 53:44 The three...

2 September 2025 Livestream #48 0:00 Intro, Holden Mitrione 8:18 Transgender issues and Rand's view (Tom Harrison) Rand on femininity etc. 39:40 Call w/ Holden re: The Fountainhead, etc. 1:17:22 Engaging with chat on self-interest and sacrifice (Evolutionary, Audrey, Matthew) The meaning of “subjective” and “objective” 1:43:40 Break. I forget to re-connect Zoom to YouTube after I first came back f...

29 August 2025 Livestream #47 0:00 Intro 6:04 Chat with Holden Mitrione (who debated Charlie Kirk), an econ major new to Ayn Rand Utilitarianism Libertarianism Ayn Rand Introduction to Objectivist Epistemology Ayn Rand’s fiction, life, and the Objectivist movement The morality of capitalism and history Utilitarianism and capitalism Free market economists and their philosophical views My history re...

0:00 Intro to my interaction with communist streamer Straighterade (Erin) 8:01 Setting up the first segment from Konstantin Kisin's Triggermetry interview with Ann Coulter re: Vivek Ramaswamy and my first exchange with Erin 13:59 Erin says Ann Coulter is racist and doesn't treat Vivek as an individual; I ask if communism treats people as individuals 18:36 Erin says she's a communist and that I ask...

25 August 2025 Livestream #46 0:00 Intro 3:00 Reading update: Early American history Townshend Acts 13:10 "No taxation without representation." 20:52 Is taxation theft? 25:17 Communist streamer Straighterade (Erin) thinks I'm trolling her in chat. I react. 2:02:51 Engaging with my chat about the video I just reacted to 2:17:44 Testing cutting the Zoom-to-YouTube connection and reestablishing it 2:...

21 August 2025 Livestream #45 0:00 Intro 3:40 My YouTube monetization Engaging with chat re: Ayn Rand quote (Robert) 27:23 My debate with Jolah Politics Engaging with chat re: fatalism/determinism 37:44 Wittgenstein and nominalism (benji) 55:30 Free will vs. determinism w/ caller (benji) Introspective evidence Falsifiability Libet's experiments (I misstated the title of Alfred Mele's book. The cor...